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%LEARNING ABOUT PHYSICISTS 800609
Some courses teach students to analyze, behave, and
feel like physicists do. Such courses are the traditional
introductory physics courses for physics majors.
Physicists tend to respect such courses. Other courses
teach students about physics, without teaching them to
analyze, behave, and feel like physicists do. Physicists
tend not to respect such courses. There are virtually no
courses which teach students about physicists---to help
students gain perspective regarding the history,
philosophy, assumptions, biases, and politics of
physicists' analyses, behavior, and feelings. In
particular, such courses about physicists are not part of
the professional training of college and university
physics teachers---they teach without the benefit of broad
perspectives such courses might offer. As a result,
college and university physics teachers thoughtlessly pass
on values and emotional life-styles of research
physicists, regardless of whether or not such values and
emotional life-styles are appropriate to their students.
Physicists focus virtually all the attention of their
students upon the cognitive content of textbooks which
summarize the theoretical mathematical relationships which
summarize the conclusions arrived at by analysis of
numerous meter readings in carefully designed and
controlled experiments. Physics teachers routinely ignore
the historical, personal, social, emotional context in
which the laws of physicists were formulated and agreed
to. The nature of the political process and how people
have felt about the political process of physicists
formulating the laws of physicists, these are not
discussed in physicists' classes.
Physics students who want to learn about physicists
will probably have to seek assistance in sociology,
philosophy, and linguistics departments. Physicists do
not have liberating perspectives upon their own natures;
they are too close to the objects of consideration to have
meaningful insights. Their manner of study of physicists
is inappropriate to receiving a meaningful way of
regarding physicists. Only a personal and trans-
disciplinary way of regarding physicists will offer
physics students insights into the nature of physicists.
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